and to do so linearly six hundred years citing health concerns critics of the catholic church however claim the move could be a result of the brewing sex and corruption scandals. a massive pileup on a nascar rally in the u.s. has left thirty three spectators injured at least two critically so they were hit by debris that was launched into the stands the accident happened on the last lap at the florida race course as drivers towards checkered flag. more stories coming your way this hour including. and i see it as some of the sort done a lot to fire up to four children they are caught of bringing weapons into u.k. schools what authority is desperate to end an epidemic of violence more on that after the break.

there's an old urban legend that says that the u.s. army stopped using circular targets for rifle practice because the soldiers would be hesitant to shoot people on the battlefield the logic is that if you practice shooting something that looks like an enemy soldier you'll be desensitized about killing real enemy soldiers so again the logic is to practice shooting at what you want to kill so you won't hesitate and speaking of not hesitating the law enforcement targets incorporated has created a special line of paper targets for police called new more hesitation so it's on these targets well maybe mexican drug cartel members or l.a. street gangs nope children and pregnant women you know law enforcement targets offers a product to desensitize police from hesitating to blow away women carrying the unborn and innocent children and it's even sicker than that i bet law enforcement agencies are probably buying these things up by the thousands but i sure why

opinion. about them back with the captain of here or america's newly installed secretary of state john kerry has embarked on his first foreign tour as the country's top diplomat on the list is checking the boxes with key allies in europe as well as delving into the turbulent middle east are his miranda partner has more details. america's new secretary of state john kerry is on his first official overseas trip visiting nine countries in western europe and the middle east over the course of ten days hillary clinton's replacement will reportedly consult with allies on

topics including iran the up peoples in the arab spring countries and syria's civil war secretary kerry is also scheduled to meet with members of syria's opposition according to the state department the top u.s. diplomat thinks of this trip as a quote listening tour meanwhile in his first speaking engagement as u.s. secretary of state mr kerry ran into some geography problems when referring to democratic reforms in the non existant country of cures ixtapa they fight corruption in nigeria they support the rule of law. they support democratic institutions and george kyrgyzstan is the country kerry should have said but unfortunately his speech was written with the mistake of reporting from new york. r.t. well current carries first stop will be in major european capitals like london paris and berlin american foreign policy expert john rees believes kerry's mission there

is going to stretch beyond just courtesy calls on traditional nato allies. it's always been very important for the americans to keep the nato alliance together but they always want to keep it together on their own terms it's always been the case for instance that the senior commanding officer in nato is from the american armed forces and what the americans want to do is to shift the burden of military intervention onto your field cars but to keep political control over the process and i think that we've seen that a number of times recently especially since the american focus is now beginning to shift towards the pacific to deal with the rising threat of china we are going to the europeans now have to take on a greater share of burden in respect of policing the arab world and north africa what we're seeing here is an attempt to convince the nato allies that they should pay more but have no more influence on line for you more disturbing pictures emerge

of israeli soldiers and their treatment of palestinians. these are the kinds of images that have been appearing on social networks are seeing how are you will see some of them now if you log on to r.t. dot com for details on how israeli officials plan to tackle the problem. on our web site china's economic boom takes a toll on the health of the nation the government admits millions of people could get life threatening diseases due to pollution from factories nearby carry. knives knuckle dusters even firearms that are tools of the trade for many an average criminal these items are also increasingly being found in the backpacks of more and more pupils across britain with the violence of schools seeing a sharp rise which is there for a report on how the problem is being dealt with. settlings you probably end up in a dead end job or in prison you'll be lucky to be alive when you're sixteen. you

know our parrot is gone our carrot is now for no for teaching them to say anything about a stark insight into the reality facing some of christian school children despite having one of the best education systems in the world the latest research estimates that up to four peoples a day a court with weapons in british schools guns knives a knuckle dusters just some of the items confiscated by police are remember we're always searching the school and. gun to the. gun. and i see this first shot gun about to fire or schools are supposed to be a safe secure environment where the focus is on education the figures have revealed that hundreds of weapons are being seized in schools every year with the number of violent incidents on the rise the reality for many schools across the bay is that your classmate can quickly become your enemy and the school playground can be

a dangerous place it becomes normal to. get sucked into this last thing to violence is the best approach. is it's just waking up in the morning and going for run yeah after a while it becomes normal to you stephen is now working with us charity x. lp set up in nine hundred ninety six after school stabbing founded patrick regan has been helping young people tackle gun culture and violence a member a kid coming up to me when a bullet proof vest underneath his school uniform he said i'll be dead by thursday according to patrick it's early intervention which is key in prison is forty thousand pounds a year a young person's secure unit is one hundred sixty five thousand pounds a year a murder can be a million pounds a year to investigate. so actually you know if we intervene earlier keep kids in education keep that sense of a safe place an environment where they can grow and flourish the problem of

violence in schools is not so new ones but it's not something you're likely to read about in a school prospectus and it's particularly acute in the country's deprived in a city called schools on the whole do not want the public to know that they have a problem with children bringing weapons onto the premises so they do not readily give the information so i guess the problem is significant all they teach is can now search people's if they suspect that carrying a weapon many politicians is still failing to sit up and take notice and until more is done to address the problem the children who attend these schools will continue to learn these lessons in violence so r.t. . syrian rebels have received a new batch of heavy weaponry from outside sponsors across the jordanian border to fight president assad that's according to arab and rebel officials this comes as fledgling efforts to promote peace talks in the syrian conflict appear to have

stalled the main opposition group syria's national coalition has announced it is pulling out of upcoming international talks aimed at helping to end the bloodshed of the group will skip the scheduled meetings in russia and the us of a what if see it as a lack of international condemnation of the our side regime there's also boycotting the gathering of the friends of syria alliance meanwhile syrian pro-forma activists are walk off the western powers could be losing their influence over the opposition and that the rebels aren't interested in negotiations. they do not want to have any dialogue with the syrian government because all their strategy based in a sense on the syrian government falling and them coming as a substitute they do not have a lot of quality on the ground the also that it is for the rebel east rather than the political elite that are called the national council which recently the national commission so all they are interested in is for the government to form very normal that the western societies of western countries have invested

a lot in them both in money and time and so on in organizing them and they think that they could probably make a stand here with regards to what they see is the policy this is a bit funny because now if the choose to get out of this sort of the international friends of syria meeting then the western community is really would have no leverage whatsoever in the syrian crisis well that's one opinion but here's another an r t as a spoken exclusively to the main mediator in the syrian conflict you had some barbed comments for the opposition the un peace envoy lakhdar brahimi said that the rebels are locked in is to make any concessions to the author version is one of the major roadblocks to p s it appears that interview is next here on r.t. ever thus. secret laboratory to mccurdy was able to build most sophisticated robots which will

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the u.n. peace envoy for syria it's great to have you with our teacher dates or thank you very much i'm happy to be research so we're talking now in cairo where the national coalition for opposition forces and the syrian revolution is having its conference and he will be meeting its leader. do you believe that direct talks between him and the syrian president bashar al assad are are possible and no two is president bashar al assad the terrific element. it is necessary yes sure. i think you know there are more and more people who accept it but there is no military victory for any side and that you need

a particular sort your shoe. and that quote if you consider soldiers and meets make assertions. or issues i think can take place between deliberation to presenting the government and the delegation representing the opposition so when you're saying q. may be talking to the government but not the president directly. the problem is only in one man bashar al assad himself or the steamroller is that the opposition is saying every five minutes but they don't want to talk to us and this is the problem six months ago your prep predecessor coffee on resigned saying that there is no way they could be a peaceful resolution in syria no he didn't say that it has anything changed you still believe that a peaceful resolution a serious possible i mean you know first of all kofi never said peace workers are losing is never possible he never said what he said they were.